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Fair enough---I guess part of my dissonance is that's also a lisp, and I feel like 99% of the people attracted to lisps are us wild-eyed hobbyist types who real
by paultopia 6y ago
Fair enough---I guess part of my dissonance is that's also a lisp, and I feel like 99% of the people attracted to lisps are us wild-eyed hobbyist types who really just want to build an individualized DSL for every project.
- blunte 6y agoThe s-expressions in lisps and clojure are one of my favorite attractions. There's so much less cognitive load when the syntax is so simple. Elixir, another great language, has a painfully complicated syntax (plus a lot of syntactic sugar and cases of there's more than one way to do something). Clojure is a bit noisier than lisp in terms of syntax, but it's also more expressive. I find the balance and design choices pretty reasonable.